[HBR] hbr - cabinet, chassis, Eddystone 898 Dial FS

[Kris Merschrod]

Walt points out some useful observations.  On the band switch - You be the 
judge,  but the hole in the front panel is off to the left and not an 
odd-ball location.

Yes, the Eddystoe dial was nicely set in there - the fellow must have had 
some decent metal working skills.

Take a look at all of the photos and you can see what is there.

I am not sure what the intent of the larger sockets was,  but a little 
creativity might make them useful.

Kris KM2KM
Merschrod
123 Warren Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
www.merschrod.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Hutchens" <waltah at earthlink.net>
To: "HBR Receiver List" <hbr at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [HBR] hbr - cabinet, chassis, Eddystone 898 Dial FS


> Kris said:
>
>> Mounted in the chassis are eight tube sockets, a five gang ceramic
>> switch, a two-gang ceramic switch, misc small components.
>
> The five-gang switch (most likely a bandswitch) hints that this wasn't
> planned as an HBR per W6TC. However it has many of the major parts
> that would be needed, including some of those that are the most
> difficult to locate.  And if the metalwork is good and can be recycled
> you've saved 10-20 hours of painstaking work.
>
> The Eddystone dial is a layout/metalwork challenge; if someone has
> done a nice job setting that up for you, that's worth something.
>
> While it could probably be re-kitted and rebuilt either as a
> bandswitching receiver OR a W6TC design, going with bandswitching will
> sacrifice most of the excellence of the plug in coil design: Both
> strong signal performance and stability will suffer.
>
> A bandswitching design, however, might not be laid out with room for
> plug in coils. A new top plate on the chassis would be one
> possibility.
>
> Walt
> KJ4KV
> You probably thought you didn't know of any ham stupid enough to try
> BPL Internet service, didn't you?  Oh, go ahead and laugh ...
>
>
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